Anne Enright

It happens once a week at choir practice on Wednesday evening. Reading through a new piece of music will undoubtedly raise the question of whether or not to modify gendered language. There’s only so much you can do with the words “king,” “father” and “lord” before you’ve made a piece of music entirely absent of lyricism. Typically, the director will ask how strongly we feel about changing the language and a few eyes will dart to me, wondering what the most vocal resident feminist will suggest. Typ